The ICD

Question 1

What is the ICD?

Answer 1

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Produced by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The current version is the ICD-10 and ICD-11

Question 2

What language is the ICD written in ?

Answer 2

It is multilingual and freely available for everyone

Question 3

Why is it a postitive that the ICD is multilingual?

Answer 3

It is good because data collected from other countries can be compared

Question 4

What is chapter 5 of the ICD-5 entitled?

Answer 4

Mental and Behavioual Disorders

Question 5

What does each disorder have in the ICD-5?

Answer 5

A code

Question 6

What study support the ICD-5 in terms of relability?

Answer 6

Gian Galeazzi
Arranged for 2 researchers to conduct a joint interview to assess 100 consecutive clients for psychosomatic symptoms.
The kappa calues ranged from 0.69 to 0.97 showing very high agreement

Question 7

How does Mason show the diagnosis of sz using the ICD-10 has good predictive validity?

Answer 7

The study compared different ways of making a diagnosis. The iCD-9 and ICD-10 were “reasonably good at predicting disability” in 99 people with sz 13 years later, as measured by the global assessment functioning questioannaire. Shows that initial diagnosis was useful annd meaningful in terms of its ability to accurately predict future outcome